Collecting scraps of octopus meat and making takoyaki is indeed feasible.
When Yan Hu told him about this, he had several players with gathering skills collect the large pile of scraps of meat, and then had players with cooking skills turn the octopus scraps into takoyaki.
Several players in charge of cooking found a rock, climbed up, set up their stalls, and started cooking.
Soon, an enticing aroma began to rise.
It tastes delicious, but it's poisonous.
Consuming this will cause you to lose 1000 HP per second for ten seconds...
The poisoning only stopped after all the players had been poisoned for a round.
"Thank you very much for your help, Your Highness Su." Yan Hu thanked Su Xi and then planned to give her some Gold Coin.
It only took less than ten minutes to deal with the Gold Rank octopus head; that's incredibly efficient.
Unfortunately, there were relatively few gold monsters in this event. Otherwise, killing ten gold monsters a day would earn you 10,000 points, which is much faster than killing ordinary and rare monsters.
"I have more Gold Coin than I can use, you might as well help me get the Snow Wind Avatar as soon as possible." Su Xi waved her hand.
If you have Snow Wind incarnation, then there's no need for a surfboard.
Call out--
While the group was still chatting, a figure suddenly appeared in the sky and said to them, "Hey, I was wondering why there was such a loud monster roar coming from Hurricane City."
Su Xi and Yan Hu looked up and saw a dark elf dressed as a waiter floating in mid-air.
"Holy crap, an NPC with all its attributes marked with question marks!"
"Dark Elf!"
"Does he mean there's a city nearby?"
"Hello, is there anything we can help you with?" Yan Hu asked skillfully.
Su Xi stopped them, saying, "These are my friends, you should go first."
Yan Hu glanced at the NPC, then followed Su Xi's advice and led the other players away.
"Is, I thought you wouldn't care about such trivial matters," Su Xi said, crossing her arms.
For the players, this very troublesome octopus monster wouldn't last more than a few minutes in Is's hands, so how could such a roar possibly attract its attention?
Is smiled slightly, "Indeed, but I sensed your presence and was a little curious, so I came to check it out."
Su Xi: "..."
They were definitely after her.
"It's been a while since I last saw you, and your natural aura has become even stronger."
"I don't have time to chat with you. What do you want?" Su Xi interrupted.
Instead of wasting time, you might as well kill some monsters and earn some points.
"Tsk tsk, as a saintess of the Elf race, you clearly lack the patience of those elves. If you're too impetuous, you don't seem so ladylike." Is slowly floated down and chuckled.
Su Xi rolled her eyes. She was never a lady, so why should she follow the rules of a lady?
"Look, it's this rotten sword that's looking for you."
Is put the sword that Su Xi had placed in the city lord's mansion into the ground.
"Hey, wasn't this sword broken?"
The sword of the Lord of Hurricane City, and his soul is still attached to the sword.
Last time he entered the Space-Time Vortex, he helped her block a sword aura. After breaking in two, he hadn't spoken. Su Xi thought he had been killed, so she put the broken sword back into the city lord's mansion.
Now the sword has been restored to its original state.
"Hey, hey, I'm not that easy to die! I just used up some energy to repair my blade and went into a deep sleep!" the sword stuck in the reef shouted.
"Also, could you please put me back in my scabbard? A sword without a scabbard is like a person without clothes; you've all seen my body!"
Is speechless. "You're about to die, why do you still care about this?"
"Of course! Even in death, one must remain innocent! After all, there's a minor here!"
Hearing what Is said, Su Xi asked, "So you're only alive now, but you'll die later?"
Nymph suddenly felt a crow fly overhead; her true form really could talk...
"Is it my fault?" Su Xi asked hesitantly.
"If it's not your fault... then whose fault is it?" Sword Saint Ryder pondered for a moment, as if wanting to tease Su Xi, and then said, "But little brat, you are quite impressive, actually fighting against such a powerful swordsman. The opponent's strength is at least 80% of my peak strength."
You're bragging; he's an immortal.
Su Xi mentally rolled her eyes and asked, "... So what do you need from me? If you need my help, I'll try my best to help you."
After all, he blocked a sword strike for himself, so it's only right that he makes amends.
Seeing that it was none of his business, Is left.
Only Su Xi, Nymph, and Ryder remained.
"I want you to take me back to the Carron Empire."
"The Carron Empire?"
"Yes." Ryder's voice was no longer noisy; instead, he calmly recounted his origins.
Ryder Evan, one of the swordsmanship instructors in the capital of the Carron Empire.
As the most renowned young swordsman in the entire Carron Empire, he was naturally recruited by the capital to become a swordsmanship instructor, teaching princes and princesses swordsmanship skills.
But compared to swordsmanship, princes and princesses prefer magic. They have magic shields for defense, elemental magic for attack, and Healing Magic injuries. The practicality of magic is unmatched by swordsmanship.
Therefore, even though he was the most famous young swordsman in the country at the time, the princes and princesses looked down on him and were very perfunctory in their teaching of him.
Ryder believed that these princes and princesses would not have come if His Majesty had not required them to learn swordsmanship.
But among them was a young princess who, although not yet old enough to learn swordsmanship and train her physical fitness, would come to observe Ryder's teaching every time.
Over time, Ryder noticed her and carved a wooden sword for her to learn from.
Her older siblings scoffed at this, believing that learning swordsmanship was a dead end, and told her: Magic is something that only noble people like us need to learn.
But the young princess didn't know what nobility was; she only knew that Ryder's sword was very cool.
In the end, he resolutely chose to learn swordsmanship.
"So, this little princess died in the end?"
Su Xi remembered that this guy had said before that he was waiting for the soul of a dead person to appear in a place on the edge of this world, but he had been waiting for a long time and the soul had not appeared.
The person Ryder is waiting for must be the little princess he mentioned, right?
"Um."
"In fact, the little princess has a great talent for magic. She even learned to use a sword to cast spells at a very young age."
Su Xi: "..."
This isn't just good, it's absolutely amazing...
Su Xi herself can't even equip a sword to replace a magic wand for casting spells!
"So, how did the little princess die?"
"Died of old age."
Su Xi: "?"
No...
Su Xi looked puzzled and asked, "How did you say she died?"
"They died of old age."
"Huh? No, then why were you being so sentimental earlier?"
Su Xi was speechless. He didn't die of illness or an accident, but of old age. So why did he make it sound so regretful? Who was he trying to mislead?
"Right? You also think that my relationship with the little princess is very heartwarming, right?" Ryder's snow-white sword trembled as he spoke excitedly.
Su Xi: "?... I don't quite understand what you mean."
"Alas, it's a pity that the little princess didn't choose me in the end, but chose an unknown mage instead. I believe that the little princess must have been coerced by the royal family to marry him, so I kept waiting. As long as that mage died, the little princess would definitely choose me! But I waited until the little princess died of old age, and that mage was still alive... Alas."
As he spoke, Ryder sighed several times, expressing his regret.
Su Xi's pretty face almost twisted into a grimace, and she wanted to roar on the spot: The other party was not coerced at all. It was clearly a marriage between two people. How dare you, a monster, try to ruin it!
He vomited blood.
Su Xi felt that her strong positive perception of this sword saint had been completely shattered, reduced to dust.
He took a deep breath and said, "Alright, stop talking. I don't want to hear about you and the little princess anymore. I'll take you back to the Carron Empire now."
"Ding, you have triggered the special quest [The Returning Sword]."
The Returning Sword
Quest Quality: Legendary
Mission objective: Help Ryder Evan return to the Carron Empire.
Quest Description: Ryder Evan has been waiting for the little princess's soul at the edge of the Sea of Death, wanting to ask her if she ever loved him. However, so much time has passed, and the little princess's soul has not come to find him. He feels that he can no longer wait, so he wants to return to his homeland.
Mission Reward: Unknown
After reading the details of the mission, Su Xi felt a surge of determination.
This sword saint is utterly despicable...
Forget it, I'd better finish this task sooner rather than later. I don't want to touch this sword at all right now.
Put Ryder into the backpack.
Su Xi quickly returned to the Carron Empire via the teleportation array in the underwater city.
This is my first time visiting the capital of the Carron Empire in my entire life.
However, I've already seen all the scenery in my past life, so there's nothing left to linger on in this one.
He took Ryder out and asked, "Where are you going back to?"
"Take me to see the little princess's descendants. I want to know how they are doing now. Without my protection, I don't know if they have grown up healthy."
Su Xi was speechless. Without your secret protection, I feel that the little princess's descendants are safer.
"What's your little princess's name?"
"Mo Xue Anasta".
In the Meta World, as long as the empire is not interrupted, the history is generally well-documented, especially for royal princesses, most of whom have some records in some libraries.
Of course, if Su Xi were to search for Mo Xue's descendants herself, she wouldn't choose to go to the library.
There are some players known as "historical researchers" who compile the history of the empire and share it on the Mind Net of Things.
So if you want to find the descendants of an NPC, just have Nymph connect to the Mind Net and search for them.
Nymph processes data very quickly.
After a short while, Nymph looked at Su Xi and said, "There are very few records about Princess Moxue. Although Princess Moxue had a high magical talent at the time, there were other princes and princesses who were not bad either, so Princess Moxue may not have been as outstanding as Mr. Ryder said."
"How is that possible? I clearly saw her use a sword to cast magic when she was around seven years old!" Ryder said in disbelief.
Nymph coughed twice. "I don't know then. Anyway, there are very few descriptions of Princess Moxue in the books. Perhaps Mr. Ryder, you think Mo Xue is powerful just because of some kind of filter?"
For example, among so many princesses and princes, only Princess Moxue was willing to learn his swordsmanship, so Ryder would definitely think that Princess Moxue was much better than the others.
"Impossible!" Ryder said in disbelief.
Su Xi said helplessly, "The Princess Moxue you mentioned is too far removed from the present. You yourself are so old that you can only rely on a sword. Are you sure you're not mistaken?"
Ryder fell silent, perhaps wondering if he had remembered it wrong.
"Let's go. Since you used to be a teacher in the palace, I'll take you on a tour of the palace to fulfill your wish," Su Xi said.
Given Su Xi's reputation, she definitely wouldn't be able to enter the palace, but Nymph has a group invisibility skill.
Once inside the alley and out of sight of the three of them, Nymph activated the [Anti-Cognition System], grabbed Ryder, and strolled around the palace.
The palace of the Carron Empire is in the style of a modern Western castle. Anyway, Su Xi didn't have any particular feelings about this kind of palace, but the decorations inside the castle were quite gorgeous.
The guards stood guard and patrolled diligently in the various castles, while servants dressed as maids were also busy working inside. Occasionally, one could see nobles and mages chatting idly in the castles.
After touring the castle, we took Ryde to the back garden.
At this moment, Ryder exclaimed, "This place has really changed a lot. It's been so long since I've been back. The former palace has become like this."
Just then, a girl's sweet shout rang out from the garden, attracting the attention of the three.
"Are you an idiot? You can't even do something this simple!"
Su Xi and Nymph peered over the flower wall.
A maid accidentally spilled milk tea on a little girl dressed in elegant clothes. The little girl was petite and lovely, with fair skin and rosy cheeks.
"That's the second princess of the Carron Empire, Xixia Anasta. Mind Net players say she has a very sharp tongue and a very arrogant personality. If it weren't for them making bubble tea, ice cream and other similar products, this princess would never have met them."
"Oh... it's not our problem, right?" Su Xi said after glancing at it.
Those players actually managed to bring out real-world food in the game to boost their favorability; they're quite something.
"Nothing to do with us! This little princess looks exactly like Princess Moxue! My God, this is definitely a gift from heaven, allowing me to see the little princess again!" Ryder exclaimed.
Su Xi and Nymph: "..."